Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor. ~Lord Mancroft, A Chinaman in the Bath, 1974

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars' worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners, 1984

Gotta use your brain, it's the most important part of your equipment. ~Kevin Andrews and Warren Miller, Extreme Skiing

When it comes to skiing, there's a difference between what you think it's going to be like, what it's really like, and what you tell your friends it was like. ~Author Unknown

The sensual caress of waist deep cold smoke.... glory in skiing virgin snow, in being the first to mark the powder with the signature of their run. ~Tim Cahill

Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. ~Author Unknown

I do not participate in any sport with ambulances at the bottom of the hill. ~Erma Bombeck

Cross country skiing is great if you live in a small country. ~Steven Wright

The sun is bright and the powder bitchin'. ~Author Unknown

Traverse: One of two ways to stop while skiing. Tree: The other method. ~Author Unknown

All things are possible, except for skiing through a revolving door. ~Author Unknown

Gravity is love and every turn is a leap of faith. ~Author Unknown

Skiing: the art of catching cold and going broke while rapidly heading nowhere at great personal risk. ~Author Unknown

There's no waiting for friends on a powder day. ~Author Unknown

Snow: a form of precipitation that usually occurs three weeks prior to and the morning of your departure from your ski vacation. ~Author Unknown

Turn right, turn left, repeat as necessary. ~Author Unknown

The ski bum trades security for face shots, the future for the moment. Considering how hollow the promise of a corporate career has become, who can say the ski bum is not the wiser investor in his or her youth? ~Author Unknown

If you aren't crashing, you aren't skiing. ~Author Unknown

Kids today, all they talk about is big air. I say, stay on the mountain, that's where the action is. If you want big air, pull my finger. ~Smooth Johnson

Powder snow skiing is not fun. It's life, fully lived, life lived in a blaze of reality. ~Dolores LaChapelle

Snowboarding is an activity that is very popular with people who do not feel that regular skiing is lethal enough.... I now realize that the small hills you see on ski slopes are formed around the bodies of forty-seven-year-olds who tried to learn snowboarding. ~Dave Barry

If you marry a skier, marry tall - they walk with their knees bent ten months out of the year. ~Author Unknown

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter. ~Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News

"As in any alpine region, the weather is changeable, protection questionable, route-finding bewildering, rockfall frequent and descents tedious. In short, it's everything you could ever ask for." -- from the Canadian Alpine Journal, 1993

There are really only three things to learn in skiing: how to put on your skis, how to slide downhill, and how to walk along the hospital corridor. ~Lord Mancroft, A Chinaman in the Bath, 1974

The sport of skiing consists of wearing three thousand dollars' worth of clothes and equipment and driving two hundred miles in the snow in order to stand around at a bar and get drunk. ~P.J. O'Rourke, Modern Manners, 1984

Skiing is the only sport where you spend an arm and a leg to break an arm and a leg. ~Author Unknown

I think my favorite sport in the Olympics is the one in which you make your way through the snow, you stop, you shoot a gun, and then you continue on. In most of the world, it is known as the biathlon, except in New York City, where it is known as winter. ~Michael Ventre, L.A. Daily News

Stretch pants - the garment that made skiing a spectator sport. ~Author Unknown

Speaking of which, the other weekend I come into the lodge of my ski hill to take momentary refuge from a howling blizzard outside and the Swedish Women's Ski team in all their athletic glory were getting changed into their speed suits. Aah a warming moment.

My fave

After the morning runs, Maier is asked by a reporter if he's learned anything from training with Rahlves and the other Americans. He reflects for a moment. "How to eat a hamburger," he says. When pressed, he elaborates: "Also, how to eat a hot dog."

Setting the stage... leading the way on the hike up the ridge on the first good powder day of the year and watching the buds fumble with gloves,zip up coats and take a leak..."Maybe this is the year when I turn over an old leaf, let someone else go first and give up my crown as the king powder pig---NAAA" ~Author more than likely known

I never coached but at one point it was a big debate argument between me and my uncle (also not a coach, but because he happened to ski for a week with Stenmark, by chance he was Glacier skiing where the guy was training at that time, had the possibility to free skiing with the lot of them "absorbing" some "concepts" of that era). He kept saying that I was skiing in a too much stylish way (implying that my "style" was not as effective as his "technique")
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